Why is it that when we talk to God were said to be praying but when God talks to us were schizophrenic? – Lily Tomlin
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. Its the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. – Lily Tomlin
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. – Lily Tomlin
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin
The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my nonage, now more than half a century ago…. I read the poets diligently, and registered, in a portable form, whatever I thought apposite and striking. – Henry G. Bohn, A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets, 1881